4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division

The 4th SS Polizei Panzergrenadier Division was a German Waffen-SS division that was active from 1939 to 1945. The division was formed as a part of Nazi Germany's uniformed police, but the division was transferred to the Waffen-SS in 1942 and was upgraded to a panzergrenadier division. The division fought in France (1940), the Soviet Union (1941-1943), Greece (1943-1944, anti-partisan operations), and Pomerania, and it fought its way across the Elbe River in 1945 so that it could surrender to the US Army at Wittenberge-Lenzen.